I thought i was crazy for needing help. Turns out, I was just hurting!

Have you ever felt like something must be wrong with you just because you need help? In this episode, we unpack the harmful belief that seeking support means you’re “crazy,” weak, or broken.

We talk about where this mindset comes from, how it keeps people stuck in silence, and why asking for help is actually a sign of self-awareness and strength, not failure. Whether it’s therapy, leaning on loved ones, or simply admitting you’re not okay, you deserve support without shame.

Transcript

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Warning. This episode includes discussion of suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, and mental health struggles. Listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you know may be struggling, please consider pausing this episode and seeking support from a trusted person or a mental health professional. You can call or text 988. Thank you.

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Just because you're seeking some type of professional help doesn't mean that you're crazy. I'm having these thoughts and I'm scared and I don't know what to do.

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Something don't feel right. And I don't want to carry this weight by myself anymore. My heart hurt, feel broken, I feel anxious, I feel sad. Those are emergencies too.

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You are not your diagnosis. Okay, let me say it again for the people on the bed. You are not your diagnosis.

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How you're feeling today is temporary. And in the words of Sister Glorilla, that's why you're tomorrow. Hey, hey, hey, welcome to the Trigger Happy Out where we take shots of the truth, straight with no chase.

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It's your hosts that do the most, Daquan and Donny. And get ready as we dive deep, laugh loud, and unpack triggers. You can dive in.

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Buckle up, y'all, cause healing ain't always pretty, but it's always real.

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I'm Daquan. I'm here for all the weather, bringing you the wind, the sun, the rain, and the storm, baby. But mostly, I like to sprinkle a little sunshine to help get you through the day.

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Hey, and it's your girl, Darnisha, licensed vendor health counselor, mommy of two. I like to give it to y'all straight with no chase, but sometimes I gotta put a little sugar on a rim to just ease it up for y'all a little bit. But either way go, y'all already know I'm gonna give it to y'all. 100 proof true. Now, today's episode is one that's not talked about a lot, but it is an issue in our community. And that's letting you guys know that you're not crazy for getting help.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Not at all. You're not crazy for getting some help, some type of help. You're not crazy at all.

SPEAKER_05 2:12

Mm-hmm. But before we get in school, we're gonna start off with this little disclaimer. This is not a substitution for therapy. We tell y'all this week after week. We are just a sounding board. If you find yourself triggered at any point, then get up, take a deep breath. If you need professional help, call 988, seek a mental health professional, or you can find somebody on psychology today. But either way or go, we want y'all to get the help that y'all need. And so before we get into the episode, we're gonna start off with a little icebreaker today. So, DaQan, what about a song, a song choice that best describes your mood for the day? We're gonna go back to, we're gonna go back to season one with the song choice.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

It's all about the Benjamins baby. Hey, it's all about the Benjamins baby.

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Okay, come on.

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Listen, dressing all black.

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Come on.

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You know, you know, huck me. But m mostly it's for Kim and Biggie. That's that's what hours I'm going for. You know, I'm dressing all black.

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All about the Benjamins, and I know that's right, because you be working. You be working, working.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Okay. And what's your song choice?

SPEAKER_05 3:28

So, all right, me and my mom, we had a little spat. And so let me just say, my mom is one with very seldom apologies. I'll just say that. Her way of apologizing is, well, Bonnie, you want me to watch Minnie Me for you today so you can go. That's her way of apologizing. She won't come out and say, I'm sorry, she'll try to do a favor or something like that. And today she called me and apologized for something that she did. And that just really melted my heart because she and she apologized in her own way. So I really don't want to say she doesn't apologize. She just has her own way of doing it. But today she actually said the words, I'm sorry for making you feel this way. Uh, you mean a lot to me. You're important to me. I hate that I made you feel that.

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And that just really meant a lot to me. Because she.

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So my song choice today is Mama, you know.

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I love you. I do my mama.

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And she knows she be working my nerves, but at the end of the day, I still love my mama.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

So you know, I wonder if that ep uh previous episode actually helped that.

SPEAKER_05 4:40

Yeah, because she be listening to, she be, she be watching our episode. She be commenting afterwards, like, is you gonna talk about me every single and this?

SPEAKER_01 4:49

And then, you know, shout out to my mom, because she's definitely one of the biggest supporters on here, too, for me. I see the comments. I know she be watching, she be lurking and stuff like that. Yes, we know you look good for your age, girl. Yes, I see that. Like, shout out to my moms, and shout out to Darnisha's mom, because moms, we love you. All right, so like Darnisha said earlier, just because you go to a behavior health center does not mean that you're crazy. And I hear that a lot because I work in a psychiatric ER, and you don't know how many times I would hear people say, I'm just here for medication. I'm not like everybody else. I'm not crazy. Well, baby, just because you come in here seeking some type of professional help, mental professional help, doesn't mean that you're crazy. Because we're not looking at you like that. We're just looking at you like you need help. Just like if you go into a doctor's office and there is something wrong with you, if your blood pressure is elevated or your sugar is elevated, you don't know what's going on, what do you do? You go to one of those medical facilities to seek help.

SPEAKER_05 6:02

Yes. And so the thing is, most people don't avoid therapy or crisis centers because they don't need help. They avoid them because they're afraid of what it means. What am I saying to myself? What am I admitting once I walk through these doors or once I reach out to this therapist to seek help? People often hear behavioral health center and picture the worst case scenario: locked doors, judgment, stray jackets, right? Labels that follow you forever, but needing support doesn't mean something is wrong with you. It usually means that something happened to you. What's crazy is not getting help when you actually need it. So go ahead. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

No, I was just agreeing with you. That is exactly right. Just because you walk into those places doesn't mean that you're crazy. You just need help. And it's okay.

SPEAKER_05 6:52

Yeah, because something has happened to you, or either life has been heavy and your nervous system is just tired. Life truly be life in. And we don't have any control over that. But we do have resources out here to help us. I know in a black community, it was always, well, just pray about a baby. And I'm gonna pray, don't get me wrong, but God also put human beings on this earth as a tool and as a resource. So lean onto those tools and those resources because for one thing, I know as a Christian, faith without work is dead. So I can pray and pray and pray the anxiety away, the depression away. I can pray all that away. But if I'm not doing anything on my end to get rid of it, then it's dead.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

It's definitely right. And, you know, I also had to tell a client a couple weeks ago that came in. He was a young kid with his family and things like that, stating that he needed help. But he was like, his faith was also on a teeter because he was saying that I'm praying to God, but God is not hearing me because I don't want these feelings and all that. But like I told him, God placed us here for a reason. God placed the therapists, God placed social workers, God placed psychiatrists, all those individuals in a facility like this or like an emergency room for this purpose. God wouldn't have made these professions just for kicksay. Maybe we're not gonna say that we make the most money, but the reason why that we're in this phys uh this place is so that we can help others like y'all that needs us in a time of need. And it's okay, for instance, let me go to give you a personal story for me. It was one time that I was having suicide audiation real bad, real bad a couple years ago. And I called my mom at that point, and I also uh called my therapist and told my therapist exactly what was going on, how I was feeling. And you know what she told me? She told me, hey, goes a mental health facility right here, go check yourself in and you let me know what's going on. And that's exactly what I did. Because when those feelings, that feeling of depression and then suicide ideation really kicks into effect, baby, that's a real scary thing. And people go through that daily. How many of us have heard prime example? Like celebrities out of nowhere, you would think they had all the money in the world, you think they would be happy, you didn't you don't think they had no type of issues. When you have more money, more problems. And that means more issues. And sometimes we don't know how to handle those things. And so we need a psychiatrist out here to help prescribe medication, therapists out here to help give you the tools and resources that you need in order for you to be in a better space. Again, it's okay to seek help.

SPEAKER_05 9:49

Yes. And the funny thing is a lot of people fear that judgment that comes with seeking help. And I know uh a lot of reservationists, well, I don't want this stranger judging me. Shoo, y'all do y'all, y'all know our stories. I promise you, we have our own therapists that we go and talk to about our own issues. So please understand that it's a judgment-free zone. And that's the purpose of kind of vetting to see which therapist works best for you. You don't have to go with the first person that you have an appointment with. If y'all don't jail, y'all don't jail. I've had people ghost me after the the intake appointment. That we just didn't jail, and that's okay. Then I've had people that have been with me two plus years. So it really doesn't matter if if if that first session is not working for you, then it's not working for you. But just find somebody that does. Again, judgment free. So we're gonna talk about what it actually means to seek that help or to walk into that behavioral health facility or that mental health agency. We're gonna talk about what that looks like and what that means. So seeking help isn't failure, y'all. It's information. It's you saying something don't feel right, and I don't want to carry this weight by myself anymore. If your chest hurt, you'd go to urgent care. If your arm was broken or feeling numb, you would go to the ER. You wouldn't call yourself weak then. So why do we call ourselves weak when dealing with emotion? My heart hurt. I feel broken, I feel anxious, I feel sad. Those are emergencies too. So the ER for mental health services is let me find a therapist, let me go to a crisis center, let me find a psychiatrist for medication management. Utilize those ER services for your mental health.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Definitely. Like Darnesha said, somewhere along the way, we were taught emotional pain had to be endured quietly. Let me run that back, just in case y'all didn't hear that. Somewhere along the way, we were taught emotional pain had to be endured quietly, prayed away, pushed through, stay strong. And if you couldn't, then something must be wrong with you. But what if walking into a behavior health facility is strength? Choosing safety over suffering. Because as you stated earlier, Darnesha, that anxiousness that can really mess with somebody's sleep. That can really mess with somebody's thought process. It can just mess with you altogether. You all jittery, that tingling feeling that's inside of your stomach. Maybe that's anxiety. If it's getting so overwhelming, it's okay to get on medication. All the breathing, the breathing techniques, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, all those types, those are helpful. But when you're extremely anxious, medication is there to help you. I had a client just the other day saying, Well, I don't want to get on depression medication because I don't want to be uh on no controlled substance. Maybe let's go ahead and drop that stigma. Just because you get on medication, there are a lot of medication that's out there that is non-addictive and habit formed.

SPEAKER_05 13:09

All right. So as DeCroan mentioned, yes, just finding a medication that's right for you. Like he said, a lot of the fear is the fear of addiction. Enough people don't want to be stigmatized. Well, only crazy people take medicine. No, that is not the that is not the case. Your favorite reality star or your favorite movie star is probably on antidepressants. It's probably you got people performing in front of strangers on Broadway or whatever, or or uh actresses and actors that have to do these movie scenes, these intimate scenes with their co-stars, you don't think they're anxious. They're probably on something for anxiety as well. But again, it's okay. Medication is okay. It's there as a resource.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

Exactly. Now, since we talked about going to these mental health facilities, let's talk about those diagnoses, right? You are not your diagnosis, okay? Let me say it again for the people on the bet, just in case they didn't hear it. You are not your diagnosis, okay?

SPEAKER_05 14:10

A diagnosis is just a tool. And so I hate too with insurance companies, they they make you put a diagnosis in there to pay for your sessions or whatever. And that's why a lot of people opt to do private pay because they don't want the insurance companies in their business, they don't want the, or, or they really just don't want the diagnosis put on them. They don't want that label. And I have a lot of clients that don't even ask me, what did you diagnose me with? They don't even care, they don't even want to hear it, right? So your diagnosis is just a tool to help the provider understand what supports you'll need. So, in order for me to be able to treat you, I kind of need to know what symptoms are these symptoms of anxiety, are these symptoms of depression, are these symptoms of schizophrenia? I need to know what the symptoms are in order for me to be able to better support what your needs are. So those are literally just symptoms and experiences. They're not identities. Your anxiety is not your identity, your depression is not your identity, your trauma is not your identity, your burnout is not your identity. You're still a parent, you're still a partner, you're still a professional, you're a whole human being out here. You are not anxiety, like the movie Inside Out. You are not sadness. You are not. What's the other characters?

SPEAKER_01 15:33

Anger, anger, depression.

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You're not, you're none of that.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Happy. You're not all like she said, oh my God, you get on my nerve with inside out.

SPEAKER_05 15:43

That's just that was a great that was a great analogy, though. Like you're not that.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

It was.

SPEAKER_05 15:50

And uh okay, so and honestly, y'all, some of the strongest people I've met have walked into a facility or a uh or sought a therapist because they were brave enough to say, I need help. I.e. me, i.e. daquan. There was one day when I was pregnant with my baby, and I was going through it. It was just like, you know what? I had a whole plan in my mind of what I was gonna do. And I just knew I I saw it, like I had a plan. And so what I did was I called 988 Crisis Intervention Services, got on the phone with a professional, they assessed me, they gave me some resources, they told me what to do. I called a trusted person, my trusted person came over and sat with me and made sure they would not leave until they knew that I were I was good and I was no longer having those suicidal ideations. But in that moment, I just didn't want to be here anymore. But I was knowledgeable enough to know that, well, feelings are temporary. So today I feel like I don't want to be here. Today I feel like taking myself out. But tomorrow, who's gonna have to find me? How about that? Who's gonna have to identify my body? Who am I affecting by an act of impulsivity? Because I don't feel like being here today. I'm ready to do something like this, this detrimental, this impactful to other people. So I sought help and I'm not embarrassed by it. I'm grateful that I'm able to be here today to tell you about my experience because I know that I'm not the only person that experienced those type of feelings or that have had those type of emotions.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

I have to say, I thank God because you did not go through with it. Just like me, I thank God that I did not go through with it because and that moment that is scary. It's a crazy scary moment because it it really overwhelms a person. And I would never forget when I had, as I stated earlier, that suicide audience, I had called my mom. And when I heard in her voice, I can tell she was scared. Because here I am in Maryland, she was in New York, and she couldn't get to me. So the thing is, she told me, hold on, stay where you at. I'm calling your grandparents, you know, whoop-de-woop, and did what it needed to do. So I was brave enough to state that I needed help. I was brave enough to reach out, just like Darnisha, like you when you had your trusted person, to reach out to them and say, I'm having these thoughts and I'm scared and I don't know what to do. The bravest thing that you did was call and ask for help, and you recognize that you needed help. And that's always saying. It's okay to need help. It's okay to seek professional help because when you are just so overwhelmed, you don't know what to do. And that act of impulsivity, it's real, y'all. You can be real impulsive because of those feelings, and you can act on those impulsive thoughts. And I'm glad that neither one of us did. Because, baby, we wouldn't be right here today to be talking to y'all and be real with y'all on these experiences. We are in this profession, but we are human too. We need help just as much as anybody else needs help. And again, it's okay because you know what? We are not our diagnosis.

SPEAKER_05 19:23

And it ain't. And I think the the most one of the key important takeaways here is again, feelings and emotions are temporary. How you're feeling today is temporary. And in the words of Sister Glorilla, that's why I love tomorrow. The sun ain't shine today. That's why I love them all. I don't know all the words, but I know that's some of them. And y'all get the point.

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I'm not dealing with you today. I am not dealing with you on this good old day.

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All right, we're gonna get into why the label, but you feel you feel me though. That's why I love them all.

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I love them all.

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We're gonna get into why the label feels heavy. Laughter. That's good. That's man, I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

Laughter is good for the soul, girl.

SPEAKER_05 20:18

Laughing is good for the soul. All right, so why does the label feel heavy? The fear of being labeled usually comes from stigma. Stigma, not reality, but perception of what other people might think. It's not a reality. The stigma of family opinions. What what's your grandma think? Because you were on medication when she then told you to take some robotussing. Not even robotussing, but some tussing. You oh, you you depressed, go in there and take some tussing. Oh, you you got anxiety anxiety, what's that? Just go take some rubotussing. That that that'll help you out. Or how about being told to just keep it in the house? You you all right back in the day, y'all had them family members that didn't nobody know what was wrong because they ain't have all these diagnoses and stuff back then. But everybody just knew that some wasn't right. And that adult was living with your grandma or living with your aunt for years, and you just knew that cutting Pete. Some may some ain't right about cutting Pete. So ain't nobody talk about cutting Pete. And it wasn't no family discussions. It wasn't no, well, what's really wrong with him. It just was like, don't get too close to cutting Pete. Some he might just whack you upside the head or something. But so that's why these type, these types of conversations are extremely important because we need education. We need people to understand what's going on. For example, my daughter has an autism. Autism wasn't really talked about back then. They was labeled as something else, the R word. And I wish somebody would call my baby the R word, current date, but that's what people were. labeled as back then, right? Didn't really talk about it. So now more people are educated on autism.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Yeah, I had a cousin back in the day when I was younger, and I knew something was wasn't right with with him, but they didn't talk about it, right? Now that I'm aware and older and in this field, he was schizophrenic. He was talking to himself. He was, you know, responding to internal stimuli. You would see him walking up and down the street. Now everybody, now again, I I'm from a little small town named Atmore, right? And so everybody knew who Frit was because they would see him walking around. He was harmless. He was very harmless. He had his stick, you know, just to hit dogs if they come try to chase him and things like that. But he had something to protect him. But he was just sitting there and going to Wendix, talking to himself, laughing when he was not on his medication. Now you can always tell when he was on his medication and when he wasn't because when he was on his medication he was clean, he showered, he had a fresh cut, but when he wasn't, he was unkept. He didn't shower, and he would be really talking to himself out loud. But again, the family didn't discuss anything about his diagnosis. They just knew, hey, you know, Fred ain't all the way there. Because you will see him sitting and laughing and talking to himself. But now that we are more educated and more aware of these things, now we know what it was. You know now being raised to believe therapy was for other people. Hold on.

SPEAKER_05 23:37

Say that what? Being what?

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Being raised to believe therapy was for other people. Other people not for people who had to survive not for people who had to grow up fast. But surviving isn't the same as living. Let me say that again. Surviving isn't the same as living. And just because you've been holding it together doesn't mean you're okay. And it's okay to say that you're not okay.

SPEAKER_05 24:08

Right. And and to piggyback off what Daquan said, those other people. Now let's get into that because for one those other people might have more accessibility to healthcare services, right? They might have the money for it. They might be in a situation where they have the transportation for it in some areas transportation is a barrier for some for some people. And and then in our community seeking help or seeking therapy was frowned upon. And then I know in Hispanic cultures they're more so again what happens in this house stays in this house. We deal with our issues on our own not some professional not some nosy social worker all up in our business. But again therapy is all inclusive. You're not excluded from therapy because you're Hispanic. You're not excluded from therapy because you're Asian. You're not, you know, it's all inclusive. It just might look different in different nationalities and different cultures, but help us help.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

We're about to wrap it up y'all but I just definitely want to let y'all know that going to a mental health facility doesn't mean you're losing your mind. It means you're what? You're listening to it because you have to listen to your mind because it's showing that you have strength within yourself to recognize that you need help and that things are not normal and here if you can go to the doctor for anything physical that means you can go to a mental health professional for a mental issue.

SPEAKER_05 25:44

Again, so we're going to get a give a quick recap of everything that we talked about today. We started off with asking for help what that looks like. And it don't mean you're crazy just because you you you're asking for help. The help is there for a reason. Take advantage of the opportunity to get the help that you need in one segment we mentioned the EAP program. Take advantage of that if you don't have let's just say I don't have to copay to go see a therapist. I don't have the money to meet my deductible because a lot of nowadays it's a whole bunch of high deductible healthcare plans. And so you gotta pay out of pocket$3,000,$4,000 before you can start getting free services. All right so let me use my EAP. I get six, five, six, seven, eight counseling sessions with that. So we talked about you're not crazy just because you need the help or you're seeking the help. We talked about the label being diagnosed it's the stigma associated with it. That's why people don't want to seek help because of the sick the stigma associated with receiving help or being on medications. What else did we dive into?

SPEAKER_01 26:52

Well as you stated we are not our diagnosis. We talked about that because again the stigma of the diagnosis is what a lot of people worry about. We also talked about why the label actually feels so heavy when we worried about what other people are thinking. We worry about what our cultural beliefs are. Those are the reasons why it feels the label feels so heavy like it does because we're too focused on what other people and our cultural when you go to to receive help or to get medication.

SPEAKER_05 27:31

All right y'all we hope y'all enjoyed that and so y'all already know what time it is it is QA time.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

Let's get it a time for the QA it's time for the QA. It's time for the QA it's time for the QA.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

All right what is today's QA question okay okay today's QA question comes from Dallas from Vegas you know not Dallas Texas but Dallas hey Dallas what's going on don't got a nickname for you yet but we will soon that's my nephew what's going on Ned see there we go nickname you just cannot help yourself can you I can't it's it's it's within me all right so Dallas wants to know what experience from your childhood contributed to your confidence slash self-perception?

SPEAKER_05 28:41

Hmm good question Dal. What experience from childhood contributed to your confidence self-perception all right okay so for me one of the memories I remember is my mom looking in the mirror and being like girl you tough that was like her way when she got real cute dressed up she would look in the mirror and be like girl you tough so I would look in the mirror and I would be like with your fine ass. So that kind of contributed to my confidence right when I felt like I looked good I'm like okay with your fine ass. So that was a childhood experience that one of them one of the positive ones um and then if I'm thinking about something that kind of contributed to the way that I know let me go here. So when I was younger my grandmother my family I was like three years old I knew how to say my ABCs backwards real fast. Z Y X W V U T is that's all I can do now. But I was the entertainment and I was labeled as the smart one. Oh she's super smart. Oh let me show you my granddaughter she's smart and so that built up my confidence because I felt like oh my grandma want to show me off and I'm smart. So that had a lot to do with the way that I perceived myself I have always perceived myself as being intelligent. I'm not the the most scholarly person but I mean I've I've graduated I got two degrees two not one but two degree I mean I barely got that undergraduate degree but hey that's neither here nor there. But I'm just saying those are some childhood experiences that contributed to my confidence or my self-perception of myself. What about you?

SPEAKER_01 30:31

For me, I guess for me I was real good at math and the only reason why I was real good at math is because I had a goal to receive certain things like a Power Ranger car because I was a big Power Ranger fan when I was a kid. So my third grade teacher Mrs. Marvin had see who could be the quickest to get all the way up to the multiplications of 12. Baby when I say I was the one that was like that's me I'm going to get that because I wanted those Power Rangers cards before anybody else. I was very determined. So that made me more proficient at math and I loved that because in my undergrad I had to take a remedial English class, whatever. But when it came to my math I scored very high in that so I had to start you know I was already in my college courses for math. So I I know I felt very confident in that so I would say that would be something about me. I wouldn't say I'm the smartest either but I am good enough because I got three degrees but Uno Dos Tress. Okay culinary Dos Tress. Listen I have I'm a culinary major a psych major uh a mental health counselor major so got those three under my belt and I now that undergrad for that psych barely got that but we got it okay listen listen got it got it baby but uh and just to talk about something on the negative side too just because I we can I can be vulnerable about that when I was a kid I was also being bullied and so that self-reception of myself of not feeling handsome and things like that because I was talked about that did affect me until my mid-20s now you can't tell me you can't tell me and won't all right so thank you Dallas for that question.

SPEAKER_05 32:34

We appreciate it also Dallas is one of our number one contributors on when we go live on YouTube. So shout out to that not only Dallas um Takia she's on every live as well Miss Thomas so we we see y'all it it be a it be a sprinkle of y'all but we definitely see y'all every I mean these these are our most consistent live viewers now we know we got a lot of people downloading on the podcast apps but I'm just talking about the people that tune in at 6 p.m Eastern Standard Time every single Wednesday night we see y'all we appreciate y'all we appreciate the interaction hold on real quick though because while we on this topic of just because you're seeking help that don't mean you're crazy share our podcast okay it's cool okay this is an urban mental health podcast baby how many of us is out there how many of us is out there y'all can share and be like man I learned something today y'all y'all listen to this podcast man is y'all will share uh the Breakfast Club y'all will share Joe button and I know our our content I'm gonna toot my own horn is way better. We ain't gossiping it ain't no celebrity gossip or nothing like that. We're talking about need to know information and everybody need to know this information. So it's it's it's it's okay to share us because we we're trying to expose the information to as many people as we can. Yeah it there's no monetary compensation we're literally just trying to help people and while helping ourselves. So I'm not I'm not even gonna say it's not a give and take because we are receiving something from this as well. This is blessing us as well but we are trying to just put the mental health put the mental health information out there for those that are just unaware.

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